Machine for setting lacing-studs.



i NITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

IRA F. PEOK, OF AUBURN, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM QUINBY, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINE FOR SETTING LAClNG-STUDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 671,293, dated April 2, 1901.

Application filed \Tuly 11 1900. Serial No. 23,168. (No model.)

This invention relates to an improved machine for setting lacing-hooks and other fas- [o tening devices.

20 the hooks 92 are delivered from any suitable hook-gathering device, the hook sliding down on the raceway 11. The end of the raceway 11 is arranged in a slot formed in a lug 93, secured to the side of the hopper. (See Fig. 1.)

94 represents a guide piece or tongue secured to the raceway and forming a guard over the hooks at the upper end of the raceway. The free end of the guide is arranged to slide in a recess or slot formed by a casting- 96 and a plate 95, secured to the casting 3o 96. The end of the raceway and the end of 'guide are at right angles to each other to Having thus explained the nature of my 5 invention and described a way of constructing and using the same, though withoutattempting to set forth allot the formsin which it may be made or all of the modes of its use,

what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters 0 Patent, is-- In a machine for setting lacing-hooks and other fastening devices, a hopper, a raceway, two tongue members on the end of said raceway arranged at an angle to each other, said 45 IRA r. PEcK.

Witnesses:

A. -D. HARRISON, H. L. ROBBINS. 

